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*YOUNGEST MK EVER:* At just 24, Yonatan Shalev is the youngest member of Knesset in the history of the State, and in his first speech from the Knesset podium he spoke for the generation that rose to save the country: "A generation of lions rose from the depths."
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*WINTER COATS FOR THE SHEPHERDS:* Thanks to an amazing response, Elisha Yered quickly ordered winter clothing for the shepherds, and today he went out to the most remote hilltops to hand out the first sets. Dozens more shepherds have asked for gear, and every 850 shekels raised means a warm, safe winter for one more shepherd on the front line.
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*ONLY IN BNEI BRAK:* Who needs a moving truck? A treadmill rides through traffic on a bike. 😊
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*HAR HABAYIS GATES:* *Nesanel Eisenman* leads the _old Sivuv Shearim_ on Rosh Chodesh Kislev, walking around the gates of Har HaBayit, starting at Shaarei Chulda, the southern gate, as Yidden did for hundreds of years.
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🇮🇱 *Hebrew Word of the Day* – Day 15: שַׁיִשׁ (Shayish)
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*DECORATING THE HOLY LAND:* Trays of fresh yellow flowers waiting to be planted along the street. 🌼
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*BNEI MENASHE ALIYAH CONTINUES:* The Bnei Menashe are a community from northeastern India who identify as descendants of the biblical tribe of Menashe and have maintained Jewish traditions for generations.
About 4,000 had made aliyah before the current government plan, while roughly 6,000 were still in India. Groups have begun arriving under the plan, and the government has now approved funding for about 600 more to make aliyah in the first half of 2027.
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*EYAL GOLAN MAKES A SIYUM:* Singer superstar Eyal Golan finished a masechta with HaRav Ronen Shaulov on Rosh Chodesh Kislev and said the Hadran with a full heart: "We run to the life of Olam Haba."
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A father tells how his ten-year-old daughter collapsed and the doctors at Tel HaShomer gave her no chance. He went to the "Yanuka" for a bracha and davened, and today, after a year and a half, she stands, eats and talks. Now the family is making a seudat hoda'ah to thank Hashem.
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*BUREKAS FOR EVERYONE:* Handing ouy fresh burekas and rugelach for the mispallelim the famous Itzkovitz shul in Bnei Brak, _"to bring joy to Hashem and to people."_
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*#ThenAndNow* Kikar Tzion in Yerushalayim, with Hotel Ron on the corner, in the 1970s and today. The cars changed, the building is still there.
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*CIRCLING OVER EILAT:* When the first-ever earthquake alert went off, takeoffs at Ramon Airport were frozen and an Arkia flight from Tel Aviv was told not to land. The flight map shows it looping over Eilat while it waited.
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*WINTER IS HERE:* Cold records that stood for 30 years were broken last night, with one town in Israel dropping close to 0°C. 🥶
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*GUSH KATIF, WE'RE BACK:* Soldiers standing by their tanks hold up a banner that reads "Gush Katif, we're back!"
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*RAFAEL UNVEILS SUPER ICE:* Israel's Rafael has revealed its new Super ICE cruise missile. It can be launched from ground launchers, from fighter jets in the air, and from missile boats at sea. It is reported to be the type of missile that carried out the secret opening strikes in Iran.
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🇮🇱 *Hebrew Word of the Day* – Day 14: סַבָּבָה (Sababa)
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*YOUNGEST MK EVER:* Yonatan Shalev is sworn in today as the youngest member of Knesset in Israel's history.
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You knew it was coming next. 😊❤️ Eliezer Botzar a"h.
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A moving chuppah tonight at the Psagot winery in Binyamin, for online personality Nachmash Bergman.
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